Turritella inezana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurritellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritella
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritella
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 4.7 Mya.
120 occurrences of Turritella inezana on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
120 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
8 formations
- Vaqueros Formation97
- Rincon Formation9
- Sespe Formation5
- Ysidro Formation3
- San Lorenzo Formation2
- Topanga Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella inezana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turritella inezana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Turritella inezana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Balanus49 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis34 sites
- Chlamys sespeensis34 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis33 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni30 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia28 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense26 sites
- Clementia conradiana23 sites
- Hybolophus granti21 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus18 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata18 sites
- Macoma nasuta18 sites
- Mammalia18 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta17 sites
- Kewia fairbanksi17 sites
- Panopea generosa17 sites
- Crenostrea eldridgei16 sites
- Lyropecten miguelensis16 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis15 sites
- Vaquerosella vaquerosensis15 sites
- Calyptraea costellata14 sites
- Diplodonta orbella14 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami14 sites
- Spondylus perrini14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Turritella inezana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
15 references- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology78
- Geology of the Northern Channel Islands11
- Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast region of North America8
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California5
- Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean3
- Stratigraphy, paleontology, and geology of the Central Santa Cruz Mountains, California Coast Ranges2
- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California2
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico2
- Marine Miocene mollusks from Cajon Pass, California2
- Notes on the Vaqueros and Temblor formations of the California Miocene with descriptions of new species2
- A new species of early Miocene allodelphinid dolphin (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Platanistoidea) from Cajon Pass, Southern California, U.S.A.1
- Age of the Skooner Gulch Formation, Mendocino County, California1
Each of the 120 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 3 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Turritella inezana
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Turritella inezana was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTurritella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1857)